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Disability Confident employers promise less than one job each on average

By John Pring on 12th July 2018 Category: Employment

Disability Confident employers promise less than one job each on average
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Nearly 7,000 employers that signed up to the government’s much-criticised Disability Confident jobs scheme have promised to provide just 4,500 new jobs for disabled people between them, less than one per employer. The figures emerged as the minister for disabled people, […]

Disabled woman forced to quit job by ‘Disability Confident’ government

By John Pring on 28th September 2017 Category: Employment

Disabled woman forced to quit job by ‘Disability Confident’ government
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A disabled woman has been forced to quit her job because two “Disability Confident” government organisations refused to allow her to use one of the parking spaces close to the offices where she worked. Leonora Bateman worked for a company wholly […]

Purple boss raises concerns over Disability Confident accreditation

By John Pring on 13th July 2017 Category: Employment

Purple boss raises concerns over Disability Confident accreditation
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New concerns have been raised about the government’s Disability Confident employment campaign, after a leading disabled social entrepreneur said that some businesses could be finding it easier than intended to secure the highest level of accreditation. Mike Adams, chief executive of […]

DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations

By John Pring on 11th May 2017 Category: Employment

DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard employer of disabled people under its own much-criticised scheme, despite being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the UN disability convention. DWP documents obtained by Disability News […]

‘Disability Confident’ advocacy charity ‘discriminated against disabled employee’

By John Pring on 30th March 2017 Category: Employment

‘Disability Confident’ advocacy charity ‘discriminated against disabled employee’
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A disability charity that has signed up to the government’s Disability Confident scheme for employers has been forced to pay more than £3,000 to a disabled woman who claimed she was discriminated against and unfairly dismissed. Tmara Senior (pictured) worked for […]

DWP admits most Disability Confident employers just skipped across from Two Ticks

By John Pring on 24th November 2016 Category: Employment

DWP admits most Disability Confident employers just skipped across from Two Ticks
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted flooding its under-fire Disability Confident scheme with hundreds of employers from the hugely-discredited disability employment programme it is replacing. The revelation is yet another blow to the credibility of the newly-relaunched scheme. […]

Disability Confident will be ‘trivially easy’ for employers to abuse, research suggests

By John Pring on 17th November 2016 Category: Employment

Disability Confident will be ‘trivially easy’ for employers to abuse, research suggests
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The government’s scheme aimed at encouraging employers to take on disabled staff is “trivially easy to abuse” and allows organisations to describe themselves as “Disability Confident” even if they do not comply with anti-discrimination laws, new research suggests. Disability Confident was […]

What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident

By John Pring on 10th November 2016 Category: Employment

What do Remploy, Capita and Maximus have in common? They’re all Disability Confident
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A company that tried to halve its disabled advisors’ pay; a religious order responsible for decades of abuse of disabled people; and a police force facing two discrimination inquiries… are just three of the employers that have described themselves as “disability […]

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’

By John Pring on 28th July 2016 Category: Employment

Rebooted Disability Confident ‘is shockingly bad’
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Disabled campaigners have given mixed reviews to a new version of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, with one saying he was “genuinely shocked” by how weak it was. Disability Confident – which has urged employers to “see the ability, not […]

Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years

By John Pring on 2nd June 2016 Category: Employment

Disability Confident attracts just 40 mainstream private sector partners… in three years
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The government has signed up only about 40 mainstream private sector employers to its flagship Disability Confident employment scheme in the three years since it was launched by the prime minister, new figures reveal. An analysis by Disability News Service (DNS) […]

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